Hubby Tag--Thanks Mal

It took me a while to get to this one, but I couldn't pass it up!


What's your husband's name? Griff

How long have you guys been married? 11 1/2 years--June 14, 1997

How long did you date? I don't know? 2 years or something. I was still in high school when we met. I think we started dating like halfway through my sophmore year.

How old is he? OLD! He'll turn 34 in a couple of weeks. (thanks for reminding me that his birthday is coming up. He hates it when I forget!)

Who eats more sweets? Definately him.

Who said "I love you" first? I really don't know!

Who is taller? Griff 6'2" me 5'6"

Who is the better singer? Definately me. He couldn't carry a tune if it had handles. It's really funny because he just kind of yells the words to his favorite songs. We like to listen to hard rock and Metal at our house though, so it really doensn't matter too much. Anyone can yell along with Metallica.

Who is smarter? Well, 5 years of college better be worth something here, but he would totally say he is smarter. I'm sure his side of the disagreement would sound something like "Book smart doesn't matter, it's common sense that counts and you don't have any of that!" HA HA! He's such a comedian.

Who does the laundry? He does most of the time. I used to do it before I went back to college. Now I just work all the time.

Who pays the bills? Griffie, but I make more money now =)

Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? If this means when you are laying down sleeping then it's me. If your standing at the foot of the bed looking at it, then it's him.

Who mows the lawn? What's a lawn? He weed wacks twice a year and then tills everything up in the fall. Let's just say we aren't going to win any "yard of the month" contests anytime soon!

Who cooks dinner? Wendy's, Taco Time, China Buffet, Little Caesars, Subway, KFC. It's a miracle we don't weigh 500 pounds!

Who drives? Depends on where we are going. Mostly him if we are together.

Who's the first to admit they are wrong? Well it sure as shit ain't me!

Who kissed who first? Griffie--I was too shy.

Who asked out who first? Griffie again, I was too shy. I met him because my friend starting dating his friend (I really don't even know how they met??) and I went down to Melon Days in Green River with her and a bunch of other friends to watch the softball tournaments. The first time I saw him, I thought he was really old--like 40 or something. But it was from a distance and the sun was setting so the bright light made it hard to see. He told me later, after we had been together for quite a while, that when he noticed me there with all of my friends that day, he knew he had to ask me out. It took him a while, probably a month or so later, but he did and now here we are--I've spent nearly half my life with him!

Who wears the pants? No one if he gets his way ;)

I tag- Heidi, Kelsey, Mom, Nat, Rachel, and Makette

On the Road Again

Some of my fondest memories of my dad come from the times when we were traveling. Saturday, as I drove up to the BYU game with Griffie, Heidi, Kevin, Dad, and Tiger, we had a short discussion reminiscing about what that was like.

He would often say things like:
"Quit kicking my seat"
or
"Sit down on that seat! Do you know what would happen if I had to slam on the brakes?!?" (That one was usually followed by an abrupt SLAMMING of the brakes just to prove the point. I remember going flying into the front seat on several occasions.)

Many of you may remember this sweet ride! (Though this is not the actual car.) I don't even think it has seatbelts.

"Don't chomp on that ice!" was another recurrent command. If any of you know the Jensen's very well, chomping is a crime punishable by death! Especially crunching the leftover ice from your drink in the close confines of the little brown dodge.

Try to picture this brown and not with that old guy standing next to it. I'll see if my mom has a picture of the actual truck on her computer and post it later. If not, I'll take one of it sitting out in the backyard--deader than a doornail.

We would also play fun games on long trips like the Licence Plate game or the Alphabet Game (we knew where every sign with a "q" and a "z" were located in the Salt Lake and Utah Valley.) I remember one time we played a game kind of like "slug bug" but you got punched when you read the billboards out loud. Heidi, Kevin (the brother) and I were on the freeway with my parents and I bet I had slugged Kevin in the arm about 20 times between Provo and the Point of the Mountain. I was pretty good about keeping my mouth in control (for once) and got by with very few attacks upon myself. (BUT, boy oh boy, was I ever good at talking trash to rub it in to everyone else just how good I was at this game.) When I did finally slip up--Kevin let me have it with the full force of his revenge--right in the side of the arm. I had a bruise for a week. My dad laughed so hard I thought we were going to crash. One of his motto's has always been "Well, you deserved it!" Honestly, I didn't think my brother had it in him.

Another time-filling activity was to sing songs like "Leo the Lion" or "Eddiecuchiecatchacamma" or "I'm Going Crazy, Why Don't You Come Along" to name a few. That was always a good way to entertain five kids and keep them from whining the entire trip. It also kept us from getting to silly. You know what happens to the noise level when children get silly!

As well as taking us on family trips, Dad would occasionally take one of us with him on the longer trips when he had to go paint signs out of town. He needed the help (he always paid us well!), but not as much as he needed the company. Another fact about my dad is that he loves to listen to talk radio. On these sign painting trips, we would always listen to KOAL or KSL 1160. After a long day of working, we would head home and it often worked out that we were just in time for the CBS Mystery Theater. To this day I absolutely love to listen to those stories.

I was actually inspired to do this post several weeks ago when I was helping a colleague find some resources on the internet and I stumbled across a few websites that stream old radio shows like Mystery Theater. The nostalgia began taking me down a road seldom traveled triggering a chain of thoughts that reminded me of my time with my dad. The trip to the BYU game took me there again and I couldn't let the opportunity pass to let my dad know how much I love and appreciate him. He has been a great parent and has also taught me that kids remember the silly times, the comfortable times, the times spent laughing and playing, and most of all--the QUALITY time. Thanks for 30 of your best years dad!

High School Tag

I feel left out now so here it goes! I think I'm about the last one to post mine. Funny how just about everyone went to CHS. GO DINOS!



1. DID YOU DATE SOMEONE FROM YOUR SCHOOL? Only Jared Peirce for a little while but then I met an certain "older guy" with red hair and the rest is history.
2. WHAT KIND OF CAR DID YOU DRIVE? A tuna can! Primer gray, 2 door Nissan sentra--I don't know what year.
3.DID YOU PASS YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE TEST YOUR FIRST TRY? Yes
4. WERE YOU A PARTY ANIMAL? Yes, but I was a really good girl compared to all of my friends. Actually, I was usually the designated driver so I ended up just hanging out a lot. It is really eye-opening to be one of a handful of sober people in a room.
5. WERE YOU CONSIDERED A FLIRT? Nope--I was a MEAN GIRL! All 95 pounds of me!
6. WERE YOU IN BAND, ORCHESTRA, OR CHOIR? Sophmore Band--I played the oboe. I finished out my senior year in retard choir with all of my friends who needed a fine arts credit.
7.WERE YOU A NERD? Nope, I don't think mean girls are considered nerds :)
8. WERE YOU ON ANY VARSITY TEAMS? Nope again!
9. DID YOU EVER GET SUSPENDED/EXPELLED? No, but I spent my share of time after school working off u's for tardies and truencies. If I was in high school today, I would probably be in DT. My sophmore year, I missed an entire quarter of seminary. We actually took off to Provo once--I don't know if my mom knows about that one :)
10. CAN YOU STILL SING THE FIGHT SONG? Only the FIGHT TEAM FIGHT, UH part. I could probably play it on the clarinet though.
11.WHO WERE YOUR FAVORITE TEACHERS? I think you had to actually go to class to have favorite teachers! Probably Mr. Gressmen.
12. WHERE DID YOU SIT FOR LUNCH? By the heaters! It was bloody freezing everyday. After my friends could drive, we usually went to subway.
13. WHAT IS YOUR SCHOOL'S FULL NAME? Carbon High School.
14. WHAT IS YOUR SCHOOL'S MASCOT AND COLOR'S? Dinosaur, blue and white.
15.DID YOU GO TO HOMECOMING AND WITH WHO? We didn't have homecoming when I went there. I went to PREF once with Jared and Prom once with Griffie.
16.IF YOU COULD GO BACK AND DO IT AGAIN WOULD YOU? Not in a million years. 17.WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER MOST ABOUT GRADUATION? I remember being relieved that it was over.
18. WHERE DID YOU GO YOUR SENIOR SKIP DAY? I don't remember. (No, that's not why I don't remember) I think I spent the day at work.
19. WERE YOU IN ANY CLUBS? Nope
20. HAVE YOU GAINED SOME WEIGHT SCINCE THEN? Do you really even need to ask??????? This is a ridculous question--of course everyone has!
21. WHO WAS YOUR PROM DATE? OOPS! I already answererd this one. Griffie my senior year.
22. ARE YOU PLANNING ON GOING TO YOUR 10 YEAR REUNION? It was two years ago and I missed it.
23. DID YOU HAVE A JOB IN HIGH SCHOOL? I worked at the original Milky Way and at Mont Harmon and an office aide. When the Milky way closed for good, I got to take a couple boxes of popcicles home. One of them was an entire box of long pops (for those of you who don't know, they are only the best popcicles ever made!). Griff and I were living in the family motel at the time and my freezer broke. They all melted! It was one of that saddest days of my life :(

My Husband, The Comedian

I have mixed feelings about our new president-elect. I don't know that I like him, but I really don't not-like him either. When it all comes down to it

this country is going to become an OBAMA-NATION!



Do you get it????

Pyzam

I guess I'm not the first person that this has happened to (my mom did it too), but I tried to use one of the templates from that pyzam website and it wiped out my whole blog. Now I am having a hard time posting anything, I can't get my blog roll to work right, and anytime I try to load a page more than once everything freezes up. It has been very frustrating and I just wanted to share with everyone so that this doesn't happen to yours too.

I lose everything. . .

I don't know what my problem is, but I put items down in random places all the time and then have to hunt for them. My keys are the worst. The stupid thing is that we have a hook right by the back door to hang them on. Another is my cell phone. The other day, it fell out of my pocket at Heidi's house when I sat down in her chair to change Emma's diaper.

My lastest blunder is an $860 prepaid visa card that has my legislative money allotted to buy classroom supplies. If I don't spend it, I have to pay it back. I really hope that it slipped under the seat of my car!!! Wish me luck! and maybe this time I'll learn my lesson.

The People's Champion

You knew he reminded you of someone--
You just couldn't quite put your finger on it.